The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-08


A daily illustrated paper is projected
in London. An American is one Of the
syndicate.
Switzerland has recently adopted law
placing the manufacture of wines and
Liquors in the hands OF the government.
AT Oxford, Pa, the other day, a spar
row nopped upon pie Of CLAIMS and was
suddenly imprisoned by one Of the BIZ
SaIves, which closed its shell together
svcr the birds foot.
y lady intorfered with an impatient
driver IN Lynn and started 4 stubborn,
2alky horse attached to heavily loaded
zeal wagon by giving the animal four
apples and then simply saying, Come
along.
Montana territory claims to be ready
for statehood, with plenty OF property,
plenty of population. 1900. LOCO cattle,
10000 horses, 100000 aheop, and
gold and silver at the rate Of 2G,O00, 900
a year.
On the tombstone of Martha Annie
Mooro, whose grave is in Old Wilmer,
Ga, is this curious enitaph: Boys. don't
shoot birds around Martial grave" The
grave is i'll a wild wood where game is
plenty.
a 5000 foot well is being sunk at San
Diego, Cal Ii is hoped that supply Of
water equivalent to 2,000, GOO gallons in
every twenty-four hours viii be obtained
from that and another deep well now
being sunk.
There is a cotton plant at Narc0ossae
Fla, which is over five feet across the
branches and has from $50 to 400 blooms.
buds, and bolls. 1t contains cotton in
all its stages, from the swelling bud TO
the mature article itself.
A merchant of Merrill. Wis, has
adopted a novel and successful method Of
advertising. lie took his old white COW,
plastered her over from head to heels
with advertisements, and set her at large
in the streets of the town,
Dealers in apples in Liverpool and
Glasgow report the market brisk for
highly colored fruit and very dull for
that that does not have attractive color.
Apples of cherry and red color generally
''go off like hot cakes" even if the quail
ity is very poor.
A sea turtle, weighing about 1000
pounds, eight feet IN length from nose to
tail, two feet through and eight feet
from flipper to fiipper, was caught by
James Buero, a Sequel fisherman, while
out with nets fishing near Capitola, Cal,
q few days ago. 1t is the largest sea
turtle ever caught on the Pacific coast,
One of the attractions at the me
chanics' fair in San Francisco was a
fountain that gushed forth Angelica vino
free to any one who wished to drink. In
another department of the exhibition was
q table eight feet high and fourteen feet
across, which had been made from a
single transverse section of HUMBOLDT
county tree.
A remarkable accident recently oc-
CURED at Chapultepec. a youthful
| student named Contreras was about to
cast in bronze a small statue representing
the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc in tor
ture, when the vessel containing the
molten metal burst and let il fall on his
feet, producing horrible burns, similar to
those inflicted on the tortured emperor.
The continuous decrease of crime in
England is very remarkable. So recently
as 1869 the prisons contained no less than
600 convicts. In July last there were
only 7,441. What is also very interesting
The education act marked the turning
point in the history of crilnc. Since The
passage Of that act the decrease Of crime
has been steady.